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When we celebrate Men’s Day or Women’s Day in India, why do the conversations always revolve around the middle class and upper class?

Recently, there has been some token mention of “poor women” — but even then, they’re hardly part of the mainstream story.

But what about poor men?

We live in a society that is built on the invisibility of the poor, despite the fact that nearly 70% of India lives in poverty, and over 80 crore people rely on government support just to eat every day.

We don’t recognize their struggles, even though they are the ones who keep the country functioning.

They are the plumbers, electricians, construction workers, drivers, farmers, and sanitation workers.

They fix our homes,
build our roads and bridges,
clean our sewage,
and keep our water, electricity, and food systems running.

If these men stopped working — cities would collapse in days.

We celebrate soldiers for protecting our land and wealth —
but what about the men who protect our daily life?

The men who protect us from disease by cleaning drains,
Who build the homes we sleep in,
Who deliver the food we eat,
Who risk their lives on scaffolding so that our cities can shine?

We hear that “men hold 80% of the wealth” and “85% of parliament” but which men are we talking about?

Certainly not the men driving autos, carrying bricks, laying cables, or cleaning gutters.

We talk as if all men have power — but men are not one group.

Men are not a homogeneous identity.

So let’s ask:

Who are the men sending other men to wars?
Who are the men demanding 70-hour work weeks?
Who are the men deciding which issues deserve research and which don’t?
Who are the men talking about unity — yet never uniting the workers, farmers, and laborers?
Who are the men who refuse to listen — even when solutions already exist?

The truth is: some men hold power.

But most men hold burden, responsibility, and silence.

Not all men are privileged.

Most men are just surviving.
Most men are invisible.

And I fail to understand what Men’s Day or Women’s Day are really about.

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Women's day sponsored by Corporate India. How will corporate India solve a sensitive issue like women's empowerment if our economy and work culture enforces low sensitivity?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yashp2411_iwd25-corporate-india-activity-7304092938756599808-0GYR

Pawan Sakkarwal • 1st

Digital Transformation | Business Excellence | BPM | Process Reengineering

Yash Pratap since when have we started talking about poor people on LinkedIn. But its a good start.

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Pawan Sakkarwal The first thing we need to do is stop invisibilising them.

I wrote on startups, angel investing and access to education in context of 95% of India

Part1 : Angel investors who are interested in solving for 95% of India.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yashp2411_indianangelinvestors-solving4realindia-difficultquestions-activity-7393667031688073216-AS2v?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAACxrlNsBn9c2b7b2lZ8UK2ckDiW-YTjaB0I

Part 2 : Who can write a defensible business plan because it requires access to high quality business education.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yashp2411_anyone-can-write-a-business-plan-but-writing-activity-7394351624644857857--6_1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAACxrlNsBn9c2b7b2lZ8UK2ckDiW-YTjaB0I

Pawan Sakkarwal • 1st

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Yash Pratap I see a collective lack of will in the society for desiring education for all. It works for the upwardly mobile population to keep a portion of society outside education as it keeps them relatively prosperous and able to afford their labour at low rates. The govt is only echoing their sentiments and closing govt schools in hordes. I don't remember when I last read a good story about huge chunk of population coming out of poverty or regarding improvement in school education without doubts of data massaging.

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Pawan Sakkarwal The biggest problem India is suffering from is the lack of an inclusive identity, because to solve any problem, we need to have an inclusive identity.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yashp2411_i-still-struggle-to-understand-what-india-activity-7394471132529246209-O8U_

I still struggle to understand what India really is. At first glance, this seems like a simple question. But the deeper I think about it — through history, politics, and identity — the more… | Yash Pratap | 31 comments

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Pawan Sakkarwal • 1st

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Yash Pratap Inclusion and identity are oxymorons. Identity by definition means exclusion of a set of people. If you are looking at a Venn diagram identity can never be the universe. I will rather believe in annihilation of identity, in some great man's words.

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Pawan Sakkarwal As long as a large portion of the population lives in poverty, they need identity for survival in order to struggle against the oppressors.

I wrote about inclusive identity below

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yashp2411_i-still-struggle-to-understand-what-india-activity-7394471132529246209-O8U_

I still struggle to understand what India really is. At first glance, this seems like a simple question. But the deeper I think about it — through history, politics, and identity — the more… | Yash Pratap | 31 comments

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Need equality at Every level regardless of gender, religion, caste.
Nothing comes with these packages of gender, religion and caste.

Equality among all gender equal access to infrastructure, education etc.

We always talk about men, women and forget about other genders.
They did not have basic acceptance in our so called society.

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